Innovation
Waters Wrap: Nasdaq, Quandl and the next phase of the alt data craze
Anthony looks at how Nasdaq's Quandl strategy ties into other trends spreading through the market.
Once taboo, open-source skills now sought by Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley and other top sell sides
The world’s biggest banks want the new talent to possess at least some open-source technology skills, which was unthinkable a decade ago. It’s a win for advanced open-source practitioners, but how did it materialize? The answer is likely a not-so-even…
ASX goes live with new DLT-as-a-service platform
Synfini enables customers to access the exchange’s DLT infrastructure, data hosting, ledger services, and support.
People Moves: LedgerEdge, Broadridge, Talos, Liquidnet, and more
A look at some of the key people moves from this week, including Jason Mendez (pictured), who joins Bitvore as vice president of partnerships.
The perfect climate risk metric does not exist
Buy-side risk survey 2021: Even the keenest searches fail to find a reliable system of climate disclosure.
ESG asset manager taps Symphony, FinTech Studios for thematic ‘mini-Bloomberg’
Sycomore Asset Management is preparing to roll out an expansion of how it uses the vendors’ combined platforms to be able to create and share targeted thematic investment data across its organization.
Waters Wrap: CME & Google—the first domino falls
Anthony explores some of the unanswered questions—and potential ripple effects—that come with the new partnership between CME and Google.
Buy one, get one free: Algos learn to multi-task
For years, brokers have offered suites of algorithms, each geared toward a certain strategy and outcome. Now, firms are compressing these into multifaceted algorithms that can switch between different strategies or markets in response to trading…
Banks seek greater clarity from regulators on cloud risk
Regulators have been reluctant to specify cloud risks, despite warnings of overreliance on three big providers.
Waters Wrap: On cloud migrations and VCRs
Financial services firms are increasingly embracing public cloud offerings, but there have been stumbles along the way, including around scalability, throttling, and a lack of true multi-cloud connectedness. These are lessons that must be learned if…
Competing CTPs won’t work, warn EU firms, calling for single tape provider
As the industry awaits upcoming EC proposals, some firms are voicing concerns that mandating multiple CTPs could create fresh problems around data fragmentation and connectivity costs.
Bank of Montreal begins 2nd phase of cloud migration and development strategy
Similar to its competitors, BMO wants the future development of financial services tools to be cloud-native. The bank expects 30% of workflows to be moved to the cloud within three years.
People Moves: Calastone, Securitize, Esma, State Street and more
A look at some of the key people moves from this week, including Ahsan Raza (pictured), who has joined Calastone as chief financial officer.
Waters Wrap: Examining Digital Asset’s DLT strategy (and its broader implications)
Digital Asset has slowly expanded its influence with exchanges in the APAC region, and this year has made additional inroads in the US and Europe. Anthony examines the company's wins and losses over the last seven years.
Murky road ahead for consolidated tape plan administrator in the US
The business unit of the new equities data plan could revolutionize pricing and accessibility in the public feeds of NMS data, say hopefuls to the role, but litigation and lack of clarity obscure the path forward.
After Refinitiv deal, LSEG Labs builds machine-learning market impact tool
Geoff Horrell talks about the Lab’s innovation strategy after the Refinitiv acquisition, deep learning, and the ideation process.
Ex-UBS Asset Management CDO takes aim at challenge of data discovery
Suvrat Bansal’s startup aims to make it easier to get data into the hands of those who need it, but who may not know it exists, faster.
Observational Learning and Exception Management Take Center Stage
SmartStream Sibos Series
Waters Wrap: Will privacy-enhancing tech for the back office fall flat?
Anthony says that banks should be more concerned with cleaning up the technical debt accumulated in the back office, rather than dumping money into bleeding-edge technologies.
The Modern Commodities Trading Lifecycle: How Technology is Transforming Business Processes
Sinara explains how it is leveraging its software expertise to overhaul and modernize business processes that have traditionally been focused around outdated and less efficient manual touchpoints
Definition of a trading venue: Reg review risks ensnarling tech vendors
Industry participants are divided over the definition of a trading venue and how regulators should revise the regulatory framework.
ASX builds ‘DLT-as-a-service’ offering to help prep market for Chess replacement
The exchange’s customer Daml sandpit has been up and running since January and has had over 20 firms log on. The next phase—its DLT cloud environment—will be ready in early October.
Companies race to tackle widening cybersecurity talent gap
More realistic job requirements and in-house training programs could boost recruitment in face of increased cyber threats
Alt data’s second inning: Brace for a long M&A game
The alternative data sector is still relatively nascent, and as such buy-side firms have struggled with how best to incorporate these non-traditional sources of information. While sources say that there will be continued M&A in the market, how those…